Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj She is a Maya-K'iche ', journalist and social anthropologist; author of the books Indigenous peoples, the state and the struggle for land in Guatemala: Survival and negotiation strategies in the face of globalized inequality and Guatemala's commercial indigenous petty bourgeoisie: class, race and gender inequalities, in addition to multiple articles in books and academic journals. Her investigative and journalistic works focus on documenting the multiple structural oppressions towards women and indigenous peoples in Latin American states. Since 2003 he has been a weekly columnist for the newspaper the newspaper. In Guatemala, he has served as an expert in transitional justice trials. Since 2008, together with Peter Marchetti, he established the Indigenous Youth Scholarship at AVANCSO. He is currently the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Brown University.

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Nation and racism. October 12 in the construction of Latin American societies

  • Alexander Grimson
  • Alicia Castellanos
  • Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj

  • moderator Santiago Bastos

Keywords: October 12, Latin America, nation, racism.

WOn October 12, 1492, the ships chartered by the Crown of Castile under the command of Admiral Christopher Columbus touched down in what would later be known as America. This date is so charged with symbolism that it is part of the civic calendars of almost all the countries of the subcontinent, referring to the relationship between the "mother country" and the republics, their "daughters" despite the sacred independence. We take this date to ask three social scientists how the always conflictive relationship of the Latin American republics with their colonial origins, with the original populations and with the Creole legacy in their formation as nations occurs in their respective countries.